Miles hangs his head at the confirmation of his suspicion, it was just his luck to be involved with the very kind of woman he'd vowed to avoid- even if it was in a professional manner, this was not going to end well for him. 

For all his doom and gloom thoughts however, the barman's words did help to raise his spirits considerably. So it seemed the glitz and glamor was mostly a facade; less the 'wealthy glamorizing poverty' and more the 'I could afford a taste of finery' crowd. It was easy to mix up the two, but he was far more comfortable with the latter crowd. They were much less likely to kick him out for 'slumming' the place with his presence.

The nonchalant offer of the single crumpled Echo however caught him by surprise and near shocked him speechless. The barman moved away without a care as he left Miles standing dumb at the bar with numb fingers clamped around it, and trying not to look as touched as he was. Generosity like that was hard to come by, the Amiable Taverner just made it in his good books for life, and hopefully Miles wouldn't wreck this budding relationship by being a miserable mooch like he'd been with most of his surface bound friends.

"Thanks mac," the detective said a bit more weakly than he intended, and he gruffly cleared his throat before calling after him, stuffing the echo in his breast pocket, "A better welcome I've yet to have all day, Barkeep, I owe you one."

And with that he made a beeline to the nearby cardgame. A small voice in the back of his head yowled at him, sounding a lot like his most recent ex Darla, a pleading screech to save the dollar for a better investment and not fritter it away. He ignored the voice with practised ease, swamping it in the eager burn for that heady rush. 

"Greetings my finely fed gentlemen," Miles swaggered over to their table, puffing up his ramshackle charm with practiced bravado, "What's the name of the game? You fellows up to turning this trio into a quartet and teaching a fresh-off-the-docks surfacer the ropes of Neethy Cards? I've come into some cash so I'm good for the stakes if you feel like letting me try my luck."